Again, GRUB boot floppy

[tyler.roach at bluebottle.com]

There is a "Super Grub Disk" (google it) available for download, which
can be burnt to a CD or a floppy, and can repair you MBR and grub
files.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:50:07AM -0500, Alex Mauer wrote:
> Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Rashkae wrote:
> >> Maybe we're asking the wrong question... Surely there must be a
> >> program/script out there somewhere that creates an emergency boot floppy
> >> for your system?
> >>
> >> (Sorry, no, I don't know of any off the top of my head... I don't use
> >> floppies at all anymore unless I'm installing Windoze)
> > 
> > Ok, I guess I'm going to have to do it again.   I once wrote (about 5 yrs ago) 
> > a procedure for making a grub boot floppy.   I haven't used one in years.
> > 
> > But it's not that tough and I will do it and report back.
> > 
> 
> it's extremely easy:
> 
> 'cat /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage1 /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2 > /dev/fd0'
> 
> or 'cd /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc; cat stage1 stage2 > /dev/fd0'
> 
> or 'cat /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage1 /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/stage2 | sudo
> tee /dev/fd0'
> 
> You get the idea.
> 
> -Alex Mauer "hawke"
> 



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